Over the winter break, besides attending the Burj opening in Dubai, I worked on a documentary which I filmed and directed. Its focus is life through the eyes of a garment worker in Bangladesh.

The garment industry in South Asia has been under scrutiny over the past decade, with outcries of human rights abuses and child labor running rampant through the media. But as Bangladesh sits to take the spotlight as the go-to location to produce low-priced clothing for the mainstream consumer market, the question is whether it has been able to keep a tidy employment policy. More and more, giants like Kohl's and Bebe are taking their production to the nation and it's even shifting business out of neighboring textile-producing countries, like Pakistan.

I followed my subject through the shanty where she lives as she gets up in the morning to go to work and progresses through her day in the factory. The piece touches on the conditions for garment workers and also tries to covey that, while the pay is far less than one would expect in the West, a factory worker's wages are actually competitive for that part of the world and provide employment to those who would otherwise have none.